Verdi wants to sign a contract for twelve months and increase hourly wages by at least one euro so that employees in aircraft security and boarding card checks are paid the same nationwide.
Vacationers are queuing with suitcases in front of the TUI check-in counter at Dusseldorf Airport. The lines could get a little longer next Monday.
(dpa) Verdi is calling on security forces in passenger control at several German airports to go on all-day warning strikes on Monday. According to the union, strikes are to take place at the airports in Düsseldorf, Cologne/Bonn, Berlin, Bremen, Hanover and Leipzig. The warning strikes are part of the collective bargaining conflict between Verdi and the Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies (BDLS). The union is negotiating with the employers’ association about a new collective agreement for around 25,000 security forces nationwide.
At the end of February, after two rounds of negotiations without a result, there were warning strikes at individual airports. At the beginning of March, the third round also had no result. Verdi describes the employer’s offer as “insufficient”. The Federal Association of Aviation Security Companies had spoken of approximations after the most recent talks, but the ideas were still far apart.
Verdi wants to sign a contract for twelve months and increase hourly wages by at least one euro. The salaries of the baggage and personnel inspectors should reach the level of employees in passenger control, employees in aircraft security and boarding card control should be paid uniformly nationwide. Both sides want to meet on March 16th and 17th in Berlin for further negotiations.